Thiele

Thiele is a German-language surname.

Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 78.0% of all known bearers of the surname Thiele were residents of Germany, 10.9% of the United States, 2.3% of Australia, 2.0% of Brazil, 1.0% of Canada and 1.0% of South Africa.

In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:1,741) in the following states:
 * 1. Brandenburg (1:477)
 * 2. Saxony-Anhalt (1:522)
 * 3. Saxony (1:624)
 * 4. Bremen (1:1,058)
 * 5. Thuringia (1:1,132)
 * 6. Lower Saxony (1:1,241)
 * 7. Hamburg (1:1,465)
 * 8. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1:1,689)
 * 9. Berlin (1:1,708)

People

 * Alfonso Thiele (1922–1986), American Italian racing driver
 * Allen Thiele (1940–2017), Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard
 * Annekatrin Thiele (born 1984), German rower
 * Arthur Thiele (1860–1936), German illustrator
 * August Thiele (1894–1967), Vizeadmiral with the Kriegsmarine
 * Aurelie Thiele, French professor using optimization algorithms to control costs in the healthcare industry
 * Bob Thiele (1922–1996), producer and record executive, who co-composed "What a Wonderful World", and discovered Buddy Holly and the Crickets
 * Bob Thiele Jr. (born 1955), American musician and music producer, son of Bob
 * Carol J. Thiele, American microbiologist and cancer researcher
 * Charles Thiele (1884–1954), American-Canadian bandmaster, musician and industrialist
 * Colin Thiele (1920–2006), Australian writer of popular children's stories, including Storm Boy
 * Dave Thiele (born circa 1952), Canadian politician
 * Edwin R. Thiele (1895–1986), missionary and archaeologist, best known for his Old Testament chronology
 * Ernest Thiele (1895–1993), influential chemical engineer
 * Fred W. Thiele Jr. (born 1953), American politician
 * Fritz Thiele (1894–1944), German member of the 20 July conspiracy to kill Hitler
 * Gerhard Thiele (born 1953), ESA astronaut and geophysicist, who was on the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission in February 2000
 * Georg Thiele (1881–1914), Imperial German Navy officer
 * Hans Thiele, Filipino professional basketball player
 * Heinz Hermann Thiele (1941–2021), German businessman and chairman of Knorr-Bremse
 * Hertha Thiele, German actress
 * Holger Thiele (1878–1946), Danish-American astronomer
 * Ilse Thiele (1920–2010), East German politician
 * Jacob Thiele, musician for the rock group The Faint
 * Johan Rudolph Thiele (1736–1815), Danish book printer
 * Johannes Thiele (1860–1935), German zoologist, and curator of the Museum of Natural History in Berlin
 * Johannes Thiele (chemist) (1865–1918), chemist at the university of Munich
 * Jürgen Thiele (born 1959), German rower
 * Just Mathias Thiele (1795–1874), Danish writer and art historian
 * Keith Thiele (1921–2016), New Zealand World War II pilot
 * Kevin Thiele (born 1959), Australian botanist and taxonomist
 * Klaus Thiele (born 1958), German athlete
 * Leslie Thiele, American political scientist
 * Neville Thiele, Australian Engineer, known for having simplified and made into practical approach the algorithms for calculating loudspeaker cabinets similarly as Richard H. Small (thus Thiele/Small loudspeaker parameters)
 * Ria Thiele (1904–1996), German actress, dancer and choreographer
 * Rolf Thiele (1918–1994), German film director
 * Rüdiger Thiele (born 1943), German mathematician and historian of mathematics
 * Thorvald N. Thiele (1838–1910), Danish astronomer, mathematician, and statistician, one of the founders of the insurance company Hafnia
 * Timmy Thiele (born 1991), German footballer
 * Walter Thiele (born 1921), German inventor
 * Walter G. Thiele (1885–1968), associate Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court
 * Wilhelm Thiele (1890–1975), Austrian screenwriter and film director

Other uses

 * Thiele (Aar), a river of Hesse, Germany, tributary of the Aar
 * Thiele modulus, in Chemistry
 * Thiele tube, laboratory glassware
 * German destroyer Z2 Georg Thiele, built for the German Navy during the mid-1930s
 * 1586 Thiele, a minor planet